The Congressional Black Caucus is appealing to Attorney General Loretta Lynch to strengthen the bonds between police and black communities following police-involved shootings in North Carolina and Oklahoma that've triggered violent protests and unrest, interim Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile said Wednesday.
In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Brazile said "my heart is heavy, there is no question, that seeing and hearing two African American men killed over the last 48 hours and watching a peaceful protest turn into this violence, we need to develop stronger bonds between the police and the community."
She said North Carolina Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus will deliver a letter to Lynch to address the unrest in Charlotte, and Tulsa, Okla. – where black men were fatally shot in police-involved incidents.
"This is a plea, a plea for us to find a way to end this type of violence that is killing, and to really strength the bonds between the law enforcement officials," she said. "There are many honorable law enforcement officials."
But Brazile said black residents "don't want to be profiled or stopped and frisked as a certain presidential candidate discussed today," referring to GOP nominee Donald Trump's call for widespread use of stop-and-frisk policing.
Brazile said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton "said we have to invest more resources into pulling these communities together, pulling the police, pulling the community together."
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